Registered Nurse (RN), Inpatient - OB Labor & Delivery, L&D

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); Presencial; USD 80.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston seeks a Labor & Delivery Nurse to provide comprehensive care in a fast-paced obstetric setting.

You will assess, educate, plan and evaluate patient care with family-centered approach; require BSN or in program, Texas RN license and BLS, 9 months experience in L&D, antepartum, triage, and Mother/Baby.

Formación

• BSN degree or current enrollment in a BSN program with agreement.
• Current Texas RN license or Nurse Licensure Compact and BLS required
• 9 months of professional nursing experience
• L&D, Triage, Antepartum and Mother/Baby unit experience required
• Strong communication and time-management skills

Responsabilidades

• Assess patient with input from patient and family
• Involve patient and family in the plan of care
• Provide high quality, cost-conscious patient care with the team
• Evaluate and adjust the plan of care as needed
• Educate patient and family throughout the care process
• Demonstrate teamwork, flexibility, and professional communication

Conocimientos

L&D experience

Triage

Antepartum

Mother/Baby

BLS certification

Time management

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Enrollment in BSN program with agreement

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

We are searching for a Labor & Delivery Nurse ! – someone who works well in a fast-paced hospital setting. In this position, you’ll provide quality nursing care to patients by assessing, planning, educating, implementing, and evaluating age appropriate care in a manner that incorporates family centered principals and cost effective care.

Job Description

We are searching for a Labor & Delivery Nurse ! – someone who works well in a fast-paced hospital setting. In this position, you’ll provide quality nursing care to patients by assessing, planning, educating, implementing, and evaluating age appropriate care in a manner that incorporates family centered principals and cost effective care. Think you’ve got what it takes?

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient with input from the patient/family
• Involves patient/family in the patient’s plan of care
• Implements high quality, cost effective patient care in conjunction with the patient/family
• Evaluates plan of care
• Educates patient and family
• Demonstrates commitment to team, flexibility, professional and interpersonal communication, critical thinking, and customer service skills
• Accountable for managing time and resources in a cost-effective manner
• Accountable for maintaining professional development of self and participates in development of others
• Participates in achieving hospital/unit goals

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing or other degree in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement
• Current licensure with the Board of Nursing for the State of Texas or Nurse Licensure Compact and BLS certification are required
• Current BLS certification from the American Heart Association
• 9 months of professional nursing experience
• Must have L&D, Triage, Antepartum, and Mother/Baby Unit experience
• Knowledge of the principles of biological, physical, and social science
• Knowledge of observation, assessment, intervention, evaluation, care and counsel
• Knowledge of health teaching of persons who are ill
• Knowledge of health or prevention of illness
• Knowledge of administration of medications or treatments
• Knowledge of administration, supervision, and evaluation of nursing practices, policies, and procedures
• Knowledge of developmental (age-appropriate) nursing practices
• Ability to demonstrate positive and appropriate interpersonal skills
• Ability to demonstrate good time and resource management skills
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to operate unit specific equipment

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• If you are applying to Labor & Delivery or OB Assessment & Triage (WAC), we prefer previous 2-3 years experience within Labor & Delivery
• If you are interested in OB ICU, we prefer you to have adult ICU experience
• If you are interested in OB Float Pool, we prefer you have worked in all the following: MBU providing couplet care, OB Triage, Labor & Delivery, High Risk Women's Services including Gyn and OB patients on Women's Specialty Unit

About Us

Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including an array of fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children’s Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing physicians, staff and patient families with rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. Three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center and The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry are all housed here. Additionally, we also recently opened a community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.